LatAm in Focus: What a Bolsonaro Win Means for Brazil's Economy

Monday, October 29, 2018  |  Elizabeth Gonzalez

Listen: J.P. Morgan’s Emy Shayo discusses the country’s main economic woes and the policies proposed by the president-elect’s pick for finance minister, Paulo Guedes.  ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: Amid Caravan Crisis, a Look at Mexico's Migration Policy 

Monday, October 22, 2018  |  Carin Zissis

Listen: Some 300,000 migrants transit Mexico each year. UT Austin’s Stephanie Leutert tells AS/COA Online’s Carin Zissis about the country’s overburdened system—and how to improve it. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: Why Peru's Political Establishment Is Scared

Thursday, October 11, 2018  |  Holly K. Sonneland

The short answer? They don’t want to go to jail, says past and future presidential candidate Julio Guzmán of the Purple Party. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: A Closer Look at Hurricane Maria's Death Toll

Wednesday, September 26, 2018  |  Brian Harper

Listen: How many Puerto Ricans died is a source of controversy. George Washington University epidemiologist Dr. Ann Goldman talks about the report at the center of it all.  ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: Who Will Win Brazil's Nostalgia Vote?

Thursday, September 20, 2018  |  Elizabeth Gonzalez

Listen: AS/COA Brazil experts Brian Winter and Roberto Simon cover the race and why leading candidates Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad represent competing visions of a “better” past. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: The Venezuelan Exodus

Wednesday, September 12, 2018  |  Holly K. Sonneland

Listen: Venezuela welcomed immigrants for decades. Now Latin America has “the opportunity and the responsibility” to welcome Venezuelans, says Human Rights Watch’s Tamara Taraciuk Broner. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: MORENA Holds the Cards in Mexico's New Congress

Tuesday, September 4, 2018  |  Carin Zissis

Listen: With work to be done to build a counterweight, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party has plenty of room to push through priorities, says Odracir Barquera. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: Clandestina's Founders on Building a Fashion Brand in a Shifting Cuba

Tuesday, August 21, 2018  |  Elizabeth Gonzalez

Listen: Entrepeneurial couple Idania del Rio and Leire Fernández share the adventures and hurdles involved with launching the island’s first independent fashion label. ... Read More

LatAm in Focus: How Nicaragua Became Latin America's New Crisis

Tuesday, July 31, 2018  |  Elizabeth Gonzalez

Listen: Daniel Ortega has consolidated power through a web of corruption, says political analyst Javier Arguello. ... Read More